If there’s one thing we love about corals the most, it’s that they don’t play by the same rules as other animals. Corals are able to exhibit a whole array of seemingly impossible biological phenomenon, including the ability to be…
Cycloseris boschmai is the smallest free living disc coral to date
There’s a new species of Cycloseris on the block and this one is distinguished by how small it remains. Growing up to only two inches (50mm) in diameter, Cyloseris boschmai was recently, finally described after more than three decades of…
Disc and plate coral olympics captured on time lapse
We tend to think of corals as almost exclusively benthic, non motile creatures, so its fascinating when we are reminded that corals are animals too. While 99% of the corals we like to play with and culture are colonial and…
Crazy awesome batch of colorful Cycloseris lands at White Corals
We thought Cyclos were blowing up in late 2012 and earlier this year but a recent shipment to White Corals in Germany hints that we have not seen the peak of this current craze. Not to be confused with species…
White Corals hits a mother lode of disc corals
White Corals has been on the Reef Builders front page before for plenty of cool corals and livestock, and now they’ve done it again with this crazy mother lode of disc and plate corals. It is no secret we like…
Sunday Morning Light Reading: Cycloseris on a Coldplay Album?
Coldplay is a household name in popular music these days but that wasn’t always the case. So why are we talking about them on a reef aquarium forum? Shortly after their debut EP, Coldplay released another rare EP, called “The…
Red Cycloseris shows up at Happy Coral
Red disc corals are hot, and red Cycloseris are even hotter. It’s been a while since we saw a good killer red Cycloseris so you can imagine our reaction when we heard that not one, but two red Cycloseris showed up at…
Tiny orange tongue coral is an example of how to find cool corals
If there is one thing that I am glad about in this hobby it’s that my taste in corals is pretty different from the mainstream. I like weirdo corals, weirdo colors and I especially love creeper corals which look like…
Rare orange Fungia plate coral shows up at Reefkoi
We really cringe when we see nearly all orange plate corals labeled as ‘orange Fungia’ corals since the typical, standard-issue orange disc corals are by and large all orange Cycloseris corals. However, we have seen one extra large orange Fungia…
RB Personal Shopper: Attack of the killer Cycloseris
Cycloseris are some of the hardiest and most colorful LPS corals available to reefers. We love all kinds of Cycloseris including Rainbow Cycloseris and we even had a Cycloseris of the year contest at the end of 2009. About a…
